27 July 2011
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Last week, I hosted a small party for Maddie, my neighbor and a recent college graduate. We have been neighbors since she was a baby and now she’s home for the summer before leaving for Rwanda, Africa to do volunteer work in the medical field.
It was a sweet afternoon of celebration and friendship with lots of fresh summer food.
The weather was perfect – sunny and cool – one of those days from heaven! All the flowers were from the garden with the sweet peas always my favorite, so lovely to look at and perfuming the air!
I served the food in the garden room and then we had a leisurely lunch on the patio. I will share several of my recipes from this lunch in some following blog entries. We enjoyed Banana Cream Pudding for dessert and that recipe is in my July 21, 2011 entry.
1 August 2011 - 7:39 am
Ahhh, lovely! Wish I could have been there and think you should do it again real soon!!!!! Your garden is more lovely than a blog could describe and we love having all of your creative passions right next door. Thanks for sharing and we like the idea of Banana Cream Pudding….
xxx susan
4 August 2011 - 10:25 am
Thanks Susan, we will do it again because we need to enjoy our gardens this time of year!!!
17 November 2011 - 5:19 pm
Hello Margaret! How happy I was to see your blog!! Your garden looks fantastic and brought back beautiful memories….and to see Jodi and Maddie! It has been too many years…I miss our little neighborhood and my little house and think of it so often. I was in Salem ever so briefly for funerals this past spring and summer and drove with Mandolyn and her twins quickly thru the neighborhood for a quick peek…it was such a comfort to see that it looks the same…greener tho! Love to you…V